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the hive and the lower the tempera- 

 ture Ihe more speedily will the can- 

 dying take place. 



I keep m^' comb honey in a warm 

 upper room and it does not candy 

 if kept the 3'ear round. There is 

 a fire beneath the room night and 

 day in the winter time. 



ANSWER BY J. M. SHUCK. 



Some kinds of honey are more 

 liable to this trouble than others. 

 Usually a warm storage room, say 

 about 60 deg. Fahr., will preserve 

 comb honey in a liquid state if it 

 has been well ripened. Unripe 

 honey in this locality is sure to 

 granulate during the first spell of 

 cool weather. I have now about 

 a hundred pounds of linden honey 

 in the comb that granulated on the 

 hive in 1883. 1 have repeatedly 

 tried to " warm it up" but notiiing 

 less than melting the combs will 

 do it. It was gathered during a 

 heavy flow, and sealed before ri- 

 pening. Tlie onl}^ remedy I know 

 is to pile the honey on the hives 

 (in the surplus cases until the 

 warm weather is over), then re- 

 move to a warm storage room to be 

 packed and disposed of as needed. 



on it all the time, it candied and 

 turned as white as milk in less than 

 four weeks after being stored in the 

 combs. 



ANSWER BY JOSHUA BULL. 



The best way that I know of to 

 prevent honey from candying in 

 sections is to keep them in a warm 

 place. I have never been troubled 

 with white clover, or basswood 

 bone}'^ candying in sections if kept 

 where it was not exposed to frost. 

 Some varieties of hone^', however, 

 ■have a much greater tendency to 

 candy than others. I have had 

 honey stored in sections when ap- 

 ple trees were in blossom that can- 

 died hard in a montli's tiijie. 



Honey gathered from certain 

 kinds of autumn flowers will candy 

 very quickly. 1 had some this fall 

 that candied in the sections before 

 the super was removed from the 

 hive ; and even in the brood nest, 

 where the bees were clustered up- 



ANSWERS BY HENRY ALLEY, 



1 do not think young bees com- 

 mence to do anything in the liive 

 until they are al)out one week old. 

 This is not, as Mr. Secor suggests, 

 an important question, the same 

 might be said of hundreds of other 

 questions or queries, and if consid- 

 ered alone many of them would 

 amount to little, yet all the ques- 

 tions taken collectively do amount 

 to something. '"The little drops of 

 water and the little grains of sand," 

 etc. 



Answering quer}'^ number 40 I 

 am of the opinion that most of the 

 wax scales are removed by the 

 bees, though I think the bee on 

 which the wax is secreted cannot 

 remove it. The wax scales are taken 

 directly to the centre of cluster 

 and the cells moulded therefrom. 



I can add nothing new to the 

 answers given to query number 

 41. Comb honey will sometimes 

 granulate and as long as the bees 

 gather it, store it in the combs and 

 cap it, it is useless to talk about 

 a preventive. 



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